Friedel Dzubas
Viking Voyage
1975.
Acrylic on canvas, (Magna).
Signed, dated and titled on the reverse of the canvas, there also inscribed with the dimensions, the technique, and two direction arrows. 145 x 333 cm (57 x 131.1 in).
• Monumental format by a leading figure of American Abstract Expressionism.
• In 1948, he was part of the inner circle around Willem and Elaine de Kooning, Franz Kline, Jackson Pollock, and the then-leading art critic Clement Greenberg.
• In the 1950s, he shared his Manhattan studio apartment with Helen Frankenthaler and was represented by the legendary Leo Castelli Gallery.
• At an early point, works from this period were acquired by renowned American museums such as the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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We are grateful to Dr. Patricia L Lewy, Director, Friedel Dzubas Estate Archives, for the kind support in cataloging this lot.